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  • #1
    “It doesn't mean shit to a tree.”
    Marty Balin

  • #2
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #3
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #4
    Marcus Aurelius
    “I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #5
    Marcus Aurelius
    “How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #6
    Marcus Aurelius
    “If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #7
    Marcus Aurelius
    “If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #8
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #9
    Marcus Aurelius
    “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #10
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #11
    Marcus Aurelius
    “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #12
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #13
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #14
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #15
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #16
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #17
    Marcus Aurelius
    “You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #18
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #19
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Casting aside other things, hold to the precious few; and besides bear in mind that every man lives only the present, which is an indivisible point, and that all the rest of his life is either past or is uncertain. Brief is man's life and small the nook of the earth where he lives; brief, too, is the longest posthumous fame, buoyed only by a succession of poor human beings who will very soon die and who know little of themselves, much less of someone who died long ago.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #20
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #21
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Receive without conceit, release without struggle.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #22
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #23
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #24
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #25
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #26
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #27
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Whoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #28
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #29
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #30
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations



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